Okay, the honeymoon is over. I still like smart but it has some major issues. A FC3 x86_64 machine I used it on it wouldn’t boot after I upgraded and installed about 20 things. I was able to use yum to install some x86_64 libg* libraries that smart had left only i386 versions of, but I finally gave up and reinstalled FC3.
Once I was done installing a full 4 disc FC3 I thought I’d try and only use smart after I installed the DAG rpms for it (not mix yum and apt).
I ran the smart gui and used it to install/upgrade a bunch of KDE related stuff and then rebooted for a sanity check. I was careful to read the information that smart gave me to make sure that I was not removing something.
Bad news. Once the machine rebooted I was not able to use the smart gui anymore!

[root@calvin ~]$ smart –gui
error: Interface ‘gtk’ not available

(… giant report cut …)

sorry for the long post, I’m trying give enough information to point out a possible problem with smart so that it could be corrected if needed and smart could continue on its path to becoming the default linux package manager…

The “error: Interface ‘gtk’ not available” message means that importing the gtk plugin failed, and this could happen for several reasons which are outside of Smart scope. If you’re technically oriented, you can get a better description of why this is happening by using –log-level=debug.

If you want further help, please send a mail to the mailing list, or open a ticket in the issue system. This is not the place to get support about Smart or anything else.